The following list contains two hundred of the many hundreds of writers, painters, musicians and scientists who are denied biographies in the Britannica. There is not a name here which should not be in an encyclopÆdia which claims for itself the completeness which the Britannica claims. Many of the names stand in the forefront of modern culture. Their omission is nothing short of preposterous, and can be accounted for only on the grounds of ignorance or prejudice. In either case, they render the encyclopÆdia inadequate as an up-to-date and comprehensive reference work.

It will be noted that not one of these names is English, and that America has suffered from neglect in a most outrageous fashion. After reading the flamboyant statements made in the EncyclopÆdia Britannica’s advertising, glance down this list. Then decide for yourself whether or not the statements are accurate.

Objection may be raised to some of the following names on the ground that they are not of sufficient importance to be included in an encyclopÆdia, and that their omission cannot be held to the discredit of the Britannica. In answer let me state that for every name listed here as being denied a biography, there are one or two, and, in the majority of cases, many, Englishmen in the same field who are admittedly inferior and yet who are given detailed and generally laudatory biographies.

LITERATURE

• “A. E.” (George W. Russell)
• Andreiev
• Artzibashef
• Hermann Bahr
• Henri Bernstein
• Otto Julius Bierbaum
• Ambrose Bierce
• Helene BÖhlau
• Henry Bordeaux
• RenÉ Boylesve
• Enrico Butti
• Cammaerts
• Capuana
• Bliss Carman
• Winston Churchill
• Pierre de Coulevain
• Richard Dehmel
• Margaret Deland
• Grazia Deledda
• Theodore Dreiser
• Eekhoud
• Clyde Fitch
• Paul Fort
• Gustav Frenssen
• FrÖding
• Fucini (Tanfucio Neri)
• Garshin
• Stefan George
• RenÉ de Ghil
• Giacosa
• Ellen Glasgow
• RÉmy de Gourmont
• Robert Grant
• Lady Gregory
• Grigorovich
• Hartleben
• Heidenstam
• Hirschfeld
• Hugo von Hofmannsthal
• Arno Holz
• Richard Hovey
• Bronson Howard
• Ricarda Huch
• James Huneker
• Douglas Hyde
• Lionel Johnson
• Karlfeldt
• Charles Klein
• Korolenko
• Kuprin
• Percy MacKaye
• Emilio de Marchi
• Ferdinando Martini
• Stuart Merrill
• William Vaughn Moody
• Nencioni
• Standish O’Grady
• Ompteda
• Panzacchi
• Giovanni Pascoli
• David Graham Phillips
• Wilhelm von Polenz
• Rapisardi
• Edwin Arlington Robinson
• Romain Rolland
• T. W. Rolleston
• Rovetta
• Albert Samain
• George Santayana
• Johannes Schlaf
• Schnitzler
• Severin
• Signoret
• Synge
• John Bannister Tabb
• Tchekhoff
• Gherardi del Testa
• JÉrÔme and Jean Tharaud
• Ludwig Thoma
• Augustus Thomas
• Tinayre
• Katherine Tynan
• Veressayeff
• Clara Viebig
• Annie Vivanti
• Wackenroder
• Wedekind
• Edith Wharton
• Owen Wister
• Ernst von Wolzogen

PAINTING

• George Bellows
• CarriÈre
• Mary Cassatt
• CÉzanne
• Louis Corinth
• Maurice Denis
• Gauguin
• Habermann
• C. W. Hawthorne
• Robert Henri
• Hodler
• Sergeant Kendall
• Ludwig Knaus
• KrÜger
• Jean Paul Laurens
• Leibl
• Von MarÉes
• RenÉ MÉnard
• Redon
• Charles Shuch
• Lucien Simon
• Steinlen
• Toulouse-Lautrec
• TrÜbner
• Twachtman
• Van Gogh
• Vallotton
• Zorn

MUSIC

• d’Albert
• Arensky
• Mrs. Beach
• Busoni
• Buxtehude
• Charpentier
• Frederick Converse
• Cui
• Arthur Foote
• Grechaninov
• Guilmant
• Henry K. Hadley
• Josef Hofmann
• Edgar Stillman Kelly
• Kreisler
• Leschetitzky
• Gustav Mahler
• Marschner
• Nevin
• Nordraak
• John Knowles Paine
• Horatio Parker
• Rachmaninov
• Ravel
• Max Reger
• Nikolaus Rubinstein
• Scharwenka brothers
• Georg Alfred Schumann
• Scriabine
• Sibelius
• Friedrich Silcher
• Sinding
• Taneiev
• Wolf-Ferrari

SCIENCE AND INVENTION

• William Beaumont
• John Shaw Billings
• Luther Burbank
• George W. Crile
• Harvey Cushing
• Rudolph Diesel
• Daniel Drake
• Ehrlich
• Simon Flexner
• W. W. Gerhard
• Samuel David Gross
• William S. Halsted
• Wilhelm His
• Abraham Jacobi
• Rudolph Leuckart
• Franz Leydig
• Jacques Loeb
• Percival Lowell
• Lyonet (Lyonnet)
• S. J. Meltzer
• Metchnikoff
• T. H. Morgan
• Joseph O’Dwyer
• RamÓn y Cajal
• Nicholas Senn
• Marion Sims
• Theobald Smith
• W. H. Welch
• Orville Wright
• Wilbur Wright

PSYCHOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY

• ArdigÒ
• Bergson
• Boutroux
• Hermann Cohen
• John Dewey
• Edelmann
• Freud
• Guyau
• G. Stanley Hall
• Hildebrand
• Jung
• KÜlpe
• Lipps
• Josiah Royce
• Alois Riehl
• Sibbern
• Soloviov
• Tetans
• Windelband